Lahore:
Punjab Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif announced that the 911 -wheeled health services will now be provided throughout the province.
Addressing the launching ceremony of the Clinic-On-Wheels Phase II project, she said: “The inhabitants of Punjab have suffered enormously in the past four years after the mandate of Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif. Cancer patients had to come on roads on the refusal of free drugs.”
She pointed out: “Not only cancer, but also hepatitis drugs and heart disease and doses of insulin for two months are delivered to the doors of patients.” Previously, people had to take leave of their work and stand in the queue to obtain treatment and medication. The health clinics health services will be provided in Punjab.
She maintained: “The clinical project on wheels, which initially started with 245 vehicles a few months earlier, receives excellent public comments. Doctors, Lady Health visitors and Allied staff work in rural areas of wheel clinics, which also offer maternal and pediatric treatment and minor medical procedures.”
The chief minister said that air -conditioned vehicles had been purchased for the second phase of the program. “I felt an immense pleasure by receiving treatment as a normal patient in a government hospital. I received treatment by obtaining an admission slip from the hospital, I suffered an MRI and the doctors administered me,” she said.
The chief minister said that more than 10 million patients had received free treatment immediately thanks to the wheel clinic project. Clinics provide installations to check blood pressure, undergo the screening and treatment of diseases.
She pointed out that “children suffering from malnutrition in southern Punjab will be treated immediately through the clinics on wheels”.
Clinics will be followed to avoid misuse of vehicles.
